A 25,000 dollar TREE? What is it, 500 foot tall?
That's ridiculous! Put a bunch of smaller trees out - or if you get $5,000 in donations, put one smaller tree out. Bigger doesn't have to be better.
The real reason? This appears another liberal ploy to have Christmas put into the past. Liberals are incrementally destroying the American culture. Christmas will not be National holiday in a few short years.
Life will go on! Somehow!
I'll bet they've got tons of money to fund liberal causes and employ liberal bureaucrats.